scope:

Introduction

This Report presents an overview of multi-carrier based transmission techniques over satellite links. Sections 2 and 3 of this Report give a general outline of satellite system design by providing examples that include applications, scenarios and satellite services where multi-carrier transmissions can be used. In § 4 of this Report, basic digital satellite transmission models are described, where more in-depth attention is given to each functional block and its operating principles in § 5-8. Some recent satellite system standards are described in § 9, and simulation results of multi-carrier transmissions over satellite links are evaluated in § 10 for various performance parameters. Emerging trends in technology that may be used for satellite systems are addressed in § 11.